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Scientific communication : practices, theories, and pedagogies
This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and communication with publics, as well as changed and changing contexts and genres. The pedagogy sect…
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- 9781315160191
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- vi, 333 p. ; ill
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- 808.0665 NOR s
Scientific writing and publishing in medicine and health sciences : a quick g…
Writing and publishing scientific papers is the core business of researchers, but is often experienced as difficult and frustrating. This book provides clear and concise key information on 12 major aspects of the process, from how to get started to dealing with reviewers’ comments. We describe each aspect structured into background information (‘‘What you should know’’), concrete advi…
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- 9783110721621
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- 83 p. : ill.
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- 610.72 KOT s
Healthcare as a universal human right : sustainability in global health
This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the world can guarantee their citizens’ fundamental right to basic healthcare. Ground in the philosophical position that healthcare is an essential element to human dignity, the book moves beyond this theoretical principle to offer policy makers a basis for health policies based o…
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- 9781003241065
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- vii, 188 p. : ill.
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- 362.1 NUN h
Hidden histories of the dead : disputed bodies in modern British medical rese…
In this discipline-redefining book, Elizabeth T. Hurren maps the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains, inside the secretive culture of modern British medical research after WWII as the bodies of the deceased were harvested as bio-commons. Often the human stories behind these bodies were dissected, discarded, or destroyed in death. Hidden Histories of the Dead recovers …
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- 9781108633154
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- xvii, 322 p. ; ill
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- 174.20941 HUR h
Studies in global animal law
This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made) governing the interaction between humans and other animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law is the response to t…
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- 9783662607565
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- viii, 183 p.
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- Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht 290
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- 346.046954 PET s
Microplastic in the environment: pattern and process
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects on biota, food security, and human exposure. Importantly, global environmental change and its associated, systems-level proces…
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- 9783030786274
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- xv, 354 p. : ill.
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- Environmental Contamination Remediation and Management
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- 363.738 BAN m
Systems thinking analyses for health policy and systems development : a Malay…
Health systems are fluid and their components are interdependent in complex ways. Policymakers, academics and students continually endeavour to understand how to manage health systems to improve the health of populations. However, previous scholarship has often failed to engage with the intersections and interactions of health with a multitude of other systems and determinants. This book ambiti…
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- 9781108954846
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- xlvii, 510 p. : ill.
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- 362.109595 MAR s
Socio-life science and the COVID-19 outbreak: public health and public policy
This open access book presents the first step towards building socio-life science, a field of science investigating humans in such a way that both social and life-scientific factors are integrated. Because humans are both living and social creatures, a human action can never be understood fully without knowing both the biological traits of a person and the social scientific environments in whic…
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- 9789811657276
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- xxx, 353 p. : ill.
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- Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific
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- 614.592414 YAN s
Global health : a challenge for interdisciplinary research
Human, animal and plant health is a field of work which offers opportunities for inter- and trans-disciplinary research. The whole topic bridges the natural and social sciences. Today, in a world of global environmental change it is widely recognized that human societies and their wellbeing depend on a sustainable equilibrium of ecosystem services and the possibility of cultural adaptation to g…
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- 9783863950477
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- iv, 400 p. : ill
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- 362.1 KAP g
Margery spring rice: pioneer of women’s health in the early twentieth century
This book vividly presents the story of Margery Spring Rice, an instrumental figure in the movements of women’s health and family planning in the first half of the twentieth century. Margery Spring Rice, née Garrett, was born into a family of formidable female trailblazers – niece of physician and suffragist Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and of Millicent Fawcett, a leading suffragist and cam…
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- 9781783748839
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- xiv, 196 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 305.42092 POL m
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